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Has anyone experience iMac memory issues with One Drive (previously Sky Drive) - uses 5GB of my 8GB memory!

I recently started experiencing memory issues with my iMac due to One Drive using up to 5GB of my iMac memory (total of 8GB). Every time I start up my iMac Activity Monitor shows One Drive uses around 4-5Gb of the internal memory for no reason. Previously Onde Drive seemed to work fine, it's only since about 2 weeks I notice this. It's really annoying as the iMac freezes up regulalrly and I need One Drive to synchronise my files across different devices.

Has anyone experienced this too and are there any known fixes?

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 9, 2014 4:43 PM

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Csound1

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Apr 23, 2014 2:08 AM in response to paulianharman

OneDrive is still running, and it is a ridiculous size, and what is with 6 Google 'helpers' helping themselves to Ram.

I would erase and reinstall OSX.

Gert001 Author

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Apr 23, 2014 4:14 AM in response to Gert001

It's a genuine application issue linked to the last upgrade. Re-installing OSX won't solve the issue. Unfortunately Microsofts helpdesk is poorly treating the issue and basically leaves me with no answer except of sending answers that have nothing to do with the issue, just to meet their SLAs. Will be moving to Google Drive.

Csound1

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Apr 23, 2014 4:18 AM in response to Gert001

Gert001 wrote:

It's a genuine application issue linked to the last upgrade. Re-installing OSX won't solve the issue.

Strange that I have an identical setup (except 27GB in my OneDrive) and mine ony uses 25MB instead of 5GB of Ram.

I would reinstall.

Curtieuk

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Apr 27, 2014 10:05 AM in response to Gert001

Definitely a genuine issue, I updated Onedrive app on two Macs, an MBP and and iMac, both with 16GB RAM, both got the same issue, and clearly it is Onedrive that hogs the memory. I have a 3rd Mac, an MBP with similar 16GB RAM but with no Onedrive installed, and all is fine.

I used to have these problems with Microsofts sycn programme, I think it originally was called Foldershare. They bought it and ruined it. Had to abandon it for similar reasons. Buggy software. Deeply disappointing.

I was hoping to run Offie on iPad, but even though that seems to work just fine, it doesn't work just fine on the Macs.

Kurt